RAVENSBANE [Frowning darkly at Dickon.] Stop talking; permit me! A tutor should know his place.

DICKON [Rubbing his hands.] Nay, your lordship is beyond comparison.

RAVENSBANE [In a terrible voice.] She will come? I shall see her? [Enter Micah.]

MICAH Pardon, my lord.

RAVENSBANE [Turning joyfully to Micah.] Is it she?

MICAH Captain Bugby, my lord, the Governor’s secretary.

DICKON Good. Squire Talbot’s second. Show him in.

RAVENSBANE [Flinging despairingly into a chair.] Ah! ah

MICAH [Lifting the flails from the table.] Beg pardon, sir; shall I remove—

DICKON Drop them; go.